"What's the matter, Mum?"

    As soon as I enter the door, I find that my mother is unhappy. It's unusual. She usually   1  the door and welcomes me with a smile!

    "She's dying," Mum says sadly. I  2 what she says. The tulip(郁金香), mother's favourite, is dying.

    A month ago, we moved 3 our new house and Mum bought a very beautiful tulip. Mum liked it very much.   4   she was free, she would sit in her armchair beside the tulip and enjoy its beautiful colour   5nice smell.

      She treated it like a baby and looked after it   6   . She put the tulip by window and moved it from one place to 7 to give the tulip enough sunshine. The first thing she did when she 8  every morning was to water the tulip. Mum also fertilized(施肥) it many times.

    She hoped that with great care, the tulip would become more and more beautiful and   9.But the tulip was dying because of too much sunshine, water and fertilizer.

    It's true that mother loved the tulip. But this kind of love 10 be harmful. Love can sometimes kill what you love.

先通读下面的短文,掌握其大意,然后从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

    Tina was a seventeen-year-old girl who always wore a bright smile. She suffered from a disease and had to use a walker most of the time. People didn't speak to her very often. Maybe it was because she looked1 and people didn't know how to come near to her. Tina usually broke the ice with people she met with a big “2.”

    In one class, I gave the students an assignment (作业) to recite(背诵) a poem. I only made the assignment worth a very small part of their total grade since I knew most of my students would not do it anyway. In the class, one by one each student 3 to correctly recite the poem. Finally, angry and half joking, I said that the next student who 4 recite the poem had to do three push-up (俯卧撑). To my surprise Tina was next. She used her walker to move to the front of the class. 5 she recited, she made a mistake. Before I could say a word, she 6 her walker and started doing push-ups. I wanted to say, “Tina, I was just joking!” But she7 , continued the poem and she finished the rest perfectly.

    When she finished, a student asked, “Tina, why did you do that? It's not an important assignment!” “Because I want to be like you guys! To be 8 .” Tina said.

    Silence fell on the whole room when another student cried out, “Tina, we're not normal! We are teenagers! We get in 9 all the time.” “I know,” Tina said as a big 10 spread across her face. The rest of the students laughed, too.

    Tina got only a few points that day, but she got the love and respect of her classmates. To her, that was worth a lot more than a grade.

    It was raining heavily and the temperature was very high. After class, I took two 1to go to the water room to collect some hot water . Oh! There were so many people! I had to wait in the rain. My2 didn't get wet because I wore a hat, but my clothes3.

    When at last it was my 4 I filled the bottles as quickly as possible. I began making my 5 back when I saw a boy coming towards me. He was6 two umbrellas in his hand. He shouted hello and as he came 7 I recognized (认出) that it was Tom.

    He had been my classmate for 8three years, but we never shared more than ten sentences. He was silent, but I liked talking. We were quite9 people and had nothing in common. I didn't like him and even didn't want to see him.

    “Hey! What's wrong?” His words brought me 10my thought. “I saw you standing in the rain, so I brought you this umbrella. But it seems a little 11 your clothes are already wet.”

    On hearing this, I was so 12 that I couldn't say a single word.

    “Don't just stand there. Let's go!” He said and held the umbrella for me. We walked towards the dormitory (宿舍) and this time we13 a lot.

    “I know you don't like me, but I want to 14 with you.” he said, “You may think I am a boy with few15 but it is because I can't find the right words to say.”

    The rain finally stopped and we saw a rainbow in the blue sky. I said to myself, “it is wrong to judge someone only by his appearance.”

    "Dorian, we all know you. We love you. Stay strong!" The wish to Dorian Murray came from some Chinese children at the Sunshine School.

    Dorian Murray, an 8-year-old American boy who has been fighting against cancer for more than 4 years, made a final 1 —he wants to be 2 in China and see the Great Wall, or, in his own words, "the bridge" that people 3 on. As he wished, he has become famous online, and many Chinese went to the Great Wall carrying the sigh "D-Strong" and wished Dorian well through the videos and 4. Children at the Sunshine School drew a huge dragon carrying the Great Wall on its back, and with the D-strong sigh. Yoyo Liu 5 the drawing:

    "Because Dorian wants to go to the Great Wall, there's a Great Wall on that drawing. The dragon is a 6 of China."

    "He has this dream, and we can help him by 7 him the picture about the Great Wall."

    "Hi, Dorian. I'm Wilson. I know you from my mum's mobile phone. The Great Wall of China is really cool. So stay strong and get well. We two can climb the Great Wall together."

    Wilson Wang, a Chinese boy who is the same age of Dorian, feels 8 sorry for Dorian.

    "I hope he can get 9 and he doesn't die."

    Dorian's story touched these children. Pan Yufei is one of them.

    "I think he is very positive, because he always smiles in those pictures online."

    "I want to tell Dorian to keep 10. Miracles(奇迹) can happen. He could make it to the Great Wall someday. I want to be as brave as he is."

    Qi Mutong thinks the support from people is meaningful: "Even if he cannot make it to the Great Wall, we can help him see it and other parts of China. I hope our love can be passed on to others. With efforts we can even help him see the whole world."

    At first I didn't know what was happening to me. I started feeling sad,1and empty. My mum advised me to start 2others. I was confused (困惑的). But I decided to have a try. The next day, I went to a house.

    The house was for young girls. They were left behind by their 3. When I arrived, I felt 4. I didn't know how to talk to them. So I started helping them to do their homework. And I started going there very often and 5enjoying it.

    One day, I met a little girl in the house. She started asking me about my 6. She was interested while asking me questions about my family. I was really surprised because she seemed to 7 each of my answers. When I asked her if she knew her parents, she said no. This really broke my 8.

    When I left that day, the girl 9 me if I could visit her more often. I smiled and said yes. I was really happy to help this 10 girl. But in fact, this little girl helped me and taught me more.